Untouchability and Dalit women's oppression

Authors
Citation
B. Malik, Untouchability and Dalit women's oppression, ECON POLIT, 34(6), 1999, pp. 323-324
Categorie Soggetti
Politucal Science & public Administration
Journal title
ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL WEEKLY
ISSN journal
00129976 → ACNP
Volume
34
Issue
6
Year of publication
1999
Pages
323 - 324
Database
ISI
SICI code
0012-9976(19990212)34:6<323:UADWO>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
A purely dalit or a purely feminist movement cannot adequately help dalit w omen. But not matter, Dalit women participants at the Convention against Un touchability and Dalit Women's Oppression were willing to help themselves. Even as they narrated their problems and humiliations, there was pride in a new identity, in being able to withstand hardships, and in the strength an d courage to wage attritive battles.